photography by SCOTT CRARY
**all images shot analog
(35mm / 60mm film)
director/producer/cinematographer/editor: SCOTT CRARY
starring: SONIC YOUTH, LYDIA LUNCH, ARTO LINDSAY, YEAH YEAH YEAHS, SWANS, SUICIDE, LIARS, GLENN BRANCA, GOGOL BORDELLO, et al.
distributed by: PALM PICTURES, NETFLIX, SHOWTIME / SUNDANCE CHANNEL, DRAFTHOUSE FILMS
>>>”Iconic and influential!”
-BLACK BOOK magazine
>>>”Mischievous!”
-THE LONDON TIMES
>>>”KILL YOUR IDOLS thrills!”
-THE VILLAGE VOICE
>>>”Still scalding and shocking!”
-UNCUT magazine
>>>”A masterpiece!”
-THE CINEMA SOURCE
VINYL
music consultant: SCOTT CRARY
network: HBO
INDEPENDENT LENS
associate producer: SCOTT CRARY
starring: AMERICA FERRERA
network: PBS
INSTANT TALK SHOW
director/writer: SCOTT CRARY
starring: PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN, BEN LEE, et al.
distributor: SUBMARINE ENTERTAINMENT
producer: SCOTT CRARY
starring: KATHLEEN HANNA, SILAS HOWARD, KIM GORDON, PEACHES, GENESIS P-ORRIDGE, JOHN WATERS, BRUCE LABRUCE, LYNN BREEDLOVE, et al.
distributed by: ARTE, ZDF, EDITION SALZGEBER, ALTERED INNOCENCE
>>>”A snapshot into the music and magazines that gave voice to LGBTQ outsiders”
-NBC NEWS
>>>”Striking and raucous!”
-THE INTERNATIONAL ANGLE
>>>"An important document capturing the influence of queercore."
-LOS ANGELES TIMES
>>>”If Queercore’s filmmakers intend to raise eyebrows, they do it well”
-PORTLAND MERCURY
>>>”The amusing and incendiary story of anarchic and transgender ‘cultural revenge’”
-TIMEOUT
editor/music supervisor: SCOTT CRARY
featuring music by: BJÖRK, SIGUR RÓS, MÚM
distributed by: ATLAS WORLDWIDE, REYKJAVIK ART MUSEUM
>>>”Entrancing!”
-TORONTO STAR
>>>”Throughly engaging and charming!”
-PLAN B magazine
>>>”Breathtaking…Poetic!”
-HERALD-TRIBUNE
producer: SCOTT CRARY
starring: PATTI SMITH, JOHN WATERS, IGGY POP, DAVID CRONENBERG, PETER WELLER, THURSTON MOORE, GUS VAN SANT, LAURIE ANDERSON, JELLO BIAFRA, et al.
distributed by: OSCILLOSCOPE, PBS
>>>”It is all either blood-chilling or hilarious!”
-THE NEW YORK TIMES
>>>”Intimate and moving!”
-LOS ANGELES TIMES
>>>”Will take your breath away!”
-SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
>>>”Reverential and entertaining!”
-NEW YORK POST
creator: SCOTT CRARY
LIVED HERE: NYC is a forthcoming conceptual photographic survey of NYC’s diverse cultural legacies, as told through stylish polaroids of the former homes of some of its most celebrated creative personalities. Doors are universal totems of fate, and some of NYC’s most extravagant fates passed through these.
The doors depicted in the sample provided are (L to R):
-Oscar Wilde (playwright/poet)
-Marcel Duchamp (painter/sculptor)
-Thomas Wolfe (novelist)
-Maya Deren (experimental filmmaker)
-Charlie Parker (jazz visionary)
-Edward Hopper (painter)
-Sofia Coppola (film director)
-Anaïs Nin (author)
Release: TBA
producer: SCOTT CRARY
starring: SUN RA, ORNETTE COLEMAN, CECIL TAYLOR, PRINCE LASHA, CARLA BLEY, ALBERT AYLER, ERIC DOLPHY, SONNY SIMMONS, et al.
distributed by: CRITERION COLLECTION
>>>”Crammed with exhilarating sounds, moving reminiscences and stimulating arguments that it is not just music, but vital music...heaven on earth.”
-THE NEW YORK TIMES
>>>”Sets the record straight on free jazz.”
-ROLLING STONE
>>>“Should be on any serious music lover's must-see list!”
-HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
>>>”Brilliantly engaging…FIRE MUSIC delivers all the brimstone and more.”
-FILM THREAT
music supervisor: SCOTT CRARY
client: RAYBAN
[branded content]
>>>Rayban invited Crary to take part in its “Never Hide” campaign, curating a playlist of songs hosted online and for a cd insert included in Black Book magazine.
director/writer/cinematographer/editor: SCOTT CRARY
featuring music by: BOARDS OF CANADA
client: NOKIA
[branded content]
>>>Nokia, in conjunction with the Tribeca Film Festival, commissioned Crary to create an original short film with their Nokia 6682 smartphones. The film, along with other commissioned shorts directed by Darren Aronofsky, Griffin Dunne, Alan Cumming, Jeff Bezos and Damon Dash, premiered at an exclusive screening hosted by the Tribeca Cinemas.
>>>”The experience truly brought to life our philosophy of connecting people to their passions.”
-David Watkins, Director of Imaging at Nokia
visual director: SCOTT CRARY
financing partner: OXFAM INTERNATIONAL
[experiential marketing]
>>>A music and art event underwritten by OXFAM to promote a multinational exchange of culture, FULL EXPOSURE was targeted to seven cities worldwide. As aesthetic helmer, Crary helped secure over $300,000 in financing for the initiative.
video content - writer/editor: SCOTT CRARY
client: MAZDA
[interactive marketing]
>>>”The site, designed to mimic the Mazda Museum at the Hiroshima Design Center, offers video clips of designers talking about how cars are developed and close-ups of 30 of Mazda’s cars.”
-Online Media Daily
>>>”Editor’s Pick!”
-Ad Age
>>>”Initiatives like the online museum have proven successful in drawing Mazda’s younger customer base into brand experience.”
-Adweek
editor: SCOTT CRARY
client: MAZDA
[viral marketing campaign]
>>>”(The spot) relied on viral distribution, through blogs and YouTube, generating more than 3,100 sites referring back to Mazda USA’s website”
-Adweek
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director/writer/cinematographer/editor: SCOTT CRARY
starring: KURT FELDMAN (of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart), KERRY CARDUFF
distributed by: BABELGUM
>>>”A dream echo in the manner of Maya Deren or Jean Cocteau.”
-VEfire
>>>"A short film inspired by the paintings of Gerhard Richter, commissioned by website Babelgum to promote its Internet television platform.”
music supervisor: SCOTT CRARY
client: COCA-COLA JAPAN
[integrated marketing campaign]
>>>Coca-Cola Japan recruited Crary to propose and secure music talent to soundtrack TV spots and interactive content on the Coca-Cola Park website, a consumer platform initially designed to promote Coke Zero in Japan. The platform went on to draw over 12 million members.
Corporate marketing and industrial content provided for world class brands and agencies including: BACARDI, GUITAR CENTER, ANNA’S LINENS, KSL MEDIA, SUBMARINE ENTERTAINMENT, SCION GROUP, SARKISSIAN MASON, TELEBRANDS, and others.
editor: SCOTT CRARY
client: THE CONTRARIAN MEDIA
distributed by: FUNNY OR DIE
[branded content]
>>>”Did somebody say politics were absurd? Let’s go to the re-edited videotape!”
-The New York Times
>>>”The biggest news event of the year was bent entirely out of shape to demonstrate why we needed THE CONTRARIAN, a crowd-sourced fact-checking startup for online news media. Video was researched, written, edited and posted within 24 hours of the first Presidential Debate. The editing technique was subsequently borrowed by writer friends at CONAN for an on-air political satire series.”
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contributing cinematographer: SCOTT CRARY
client: U2
studio: MODERNISTA!
distributed by: UNIVERSAL MUSIC
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director/cinematographer: SCOTT CRARY
clients: NOKIA & ZEISS
[branded content]
>>>Nokia and Zeiss partnered with Crary to promote their N93 DVD-quality smartphone camera by inviting Crary to shoot a series of faux film stills in seven cities around the world: Tokyo, London, Tel Aviv, Rome, New York, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. Part of the brands’ “The Next Story in Video” initiative, the images were presented on a branded production blog, serialized across the campaign.
>>>”The campaign and site are about driving the shift from the consumption of media through to creation of content.”
-Richard Ferguson, Marketing Manager at Nokia Multimedia
director/cinematographer/editor: SCOTT CRARY
starring: CAT POWER
commissioned for: MATADOR RECORDS
a book authored by: SCOTT CRARY
release: 2025
>>>”Four Fables About the Dilemma of Being Born Human”
creator/writer/producer: SCOTT CRARY
TV series - in development
release: TBA
>>>”A gang from the South Bronx invades a small suburban town in the late 1980s.”
creator/writer/producer: SCOTT CRARY
TV series - in development
release: TBA
>>>A limited anthology series.
producer: SCOTT CRARY
starring: NICK CAVE, JACK WHITE, MOBY, KID CONGO POWERS, DEBBIE HARRY, MARK LANEGAN, JIM JARMUSCH, MICK HARVEY, et al.
release: TBA
>>>”The Gun Club frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce is the subject of a forthcoming documentary called ELVIS FROM HELL.”
-STEREOGUM
>>>”The film will cover the singer/guitarist’s life and career through his death in 1996 at age 37 from causes related to heroin addiction, alcoholism, and HIV.”
-PITCHFORK
>>>“Why are these songs not taught in schools?”
-JACK WHITE (of The White Stripes)
>>>”This is my favorite band.”
-JOHNNY DEPP
contributing cinematographer: SCOTT CRARY
starring: THE STROKES, INTERPOL, LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, THE MOLDY PEACHES, YEAH YEAH YEAHS, TV ON THE RADIO, et al.
studio: PULSE FILMS
distributed by: UTOPIA, SHOWTIME
>>>”An exhilarating time capsule of a pop-cultural moment that at once feels just like yesterday and like another world entirely.”
-VOGUE
>>>”Magnificent…thought-provoking…better than anything I Imagined.”
-FILM THREAT
>>>”The footage in the movie captures all the raw excitement of the day.”
-ROLLING STONE
>>>”Vivid!”
-VARIETY
photographer/writer: SCOTT CRARY
client: LOMOGRAPHY
[branded content]
>>>Lomography partnered with Crary to promote its iconic Lomo LC-A+ 35mm camera by having Crary create an original photo series. Part of the brand’s “Lomo Amigos” campaign, additional contributors included actor Elijah Wood, author Neil Gaiman, actor David Arquette, and musician Beirut, among several prestigious others. A top performer on Lomography’s social media like Instagram, Crary’s contribution was also presented on Lomography Magazine, which draws 2 million monthly visitors.
>>>”We immediately fell in love with the idea of (Crary’s project) and are even more fascinated by the results.”
-Birgit Buchart, Marketing Manager at Lomography USA
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photographer/writer: SCOTT CRARY
client: LOMOGRAPHY
[branded content]
>>>Lomography recruited Crary to market its LomoChrome Purple 35mm film by having him shoot a suite of photos with its latest color-warping film formula. The images were centrally featured across all key advertising, including an exclusive limited preview on Lomography Magazine and prominent placement on all social media platforms and within the brand’s online mailers. Crary’s series even caught the attention of influencers and celebrities, like Frances Bean Cobain, who shared the images on their own social media, expanding the campaign’s reach in excess of a million viewers.
>>>”We always love to see what director Scott Crary is up to…Scott turns every sight into a scene straight out of a movie.”
-Tamara Saade, at Lomography USA
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creative director: SCOTT CRARY
client: SEAGRAM’S GIN
[sponsored content]
>>>Seagram’s Gin partnered with Spain’s Número Cero to present an interactive online tour through 40 years of musical subcultures in New York City, curated exclusively by Scott Crary.
>>>”There are as many stories in New York as there are inhabitants of the metropolis and, as some of the best come to us from songs, we’ve gathered a few that have the city as a link. (…) Grab a Seagram’s Extra Dry Gin while listening to these songs to experience…The New York Life.”
Scott Crary’s images have been exhibited at a number of international art institutions, including: London's Institute of Contemporary Art, Istanbul's Pera Museum, New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, Montréal’s Musée d’Art Contemporain and Barcelona’s Centre de Cultura Contemporània, among others.
Select juvenilia depicted:
>>>Drowned Ophelia
[oil on canvas]
>>>Trane.
[white charcoal on paper]
>>>untitled
[graphite on paper]
>>>Le Langage des Fleurs (stills)
Three-channel video and sound installation, color
sales/acquisitions associate: SCOTT CRARY
Facilitated the sales and distribution of high-profile films such as: SUPER SIZE ME, DIG!, IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL, CONTROL ROOM, LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF, SPELLBOUND, BORN RICH, FORTY SHADES OF BLUE, and many others, during a three-year tenure at the esteemed SUBMARINE ENTERTAINMENT, named “one of the most successful documentary sellers in the business” by IndieWire.
Diverse credits on over 30 commercially released film and TV productions.
Services include: script consultation, story editing, production strategy, financing, sales advisement, contract negotiation, research/archival support, rights & clearances, marketing and creative directing
Scott Crary has been included in a number of academic volumes (pictured).
He has been invited to lecture at the esteemed British Film Institute, Athens’ historic Attikon, Tokyo’s Uplink Factory and São Paulo’s Mostra, and his film work is taught on the curriculum of such universities as NYU, USC, The New School, Rutgers and Columbia University.
